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Brent WILTON Secretary -General. FOLLOW-UP ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN GUIDING PRINCIPLES: RISKS AND CHALLENGES. Working Group (5 personalities) underway Three work streams: Global dissemination Promoting implementation Embedding in global governance frameworks. Current projects:
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Brent WILTONSecretary-General FOLLOW-UP ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN GUIDING PRINCIPLES: RISKS AND CHALLENGES
Working Group (5 personalities) underway • Three work streams: • Global dissemination • Promoting implementation • Embedding in global governance frameworks
Current projects: • Country visits – Mongolia (mining); • Survey with IOE and companies on obstacles for the implementation of GP; • Global Community of Practice Initiative, Geneva, 31 December – 20 companies; • GP laboratories.
UN Forum on Business and Human Rights Geneva, 4-5 December • Online registration open http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Business/Pages/ForumonBusinessandHR2012.aspx • Business “fair” – stands • SME participation (jtpresentation)
EU project on Guiding Principles. SHIFT and Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) – 3 sectoral guides • Employment and recruitment agencies • Information and Communication Technology • Oil and gas By April 2013
“Bernard Brunhes International” - SME guide • By end of November 2012 • IOE member of the Advisory Group • EU Commission update of accounting directive • explicit obligation to report on Human Rights policies